Childhood Quote by Alison Gopnik

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

— Benjamin Franklin

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time…

— Alison Gopnik

“evolution doesn’t have much interest in protecting us anymore because we’re less likely to have—or be able to bear—children.”

— David B. Agus

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of…

— Richard Farson

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

— Alice Miller

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer…

— Lewis Thomas

We carry our childhood with us.

— Anonymous

Childhood lasts all through life.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call miracles rather…

— Sung Yim